The P.S.C. does not demand elections in Catalonia, although, taking into account its supremacy in the last contests, it does not matter generates restlessness the scenario of going to the polls. For the party of Salvador Illa lThe continuity of the legislature is subject to whether whether or not there will be new budgetsan agreement that, for now, seems distant and that they try to separate from the fact that Pedro Sanchez requires the votes of ERC to also approve the general accounts of the State. For example, they warn, a button: although they supported the 2023 budgets, they did not do the same with the 2022 budgets, although then the Republicans still governed with Junts.
“We are prepared to go to elections”The PSC spokesperson in Parliament said without hesitation, Alicia Romero, in an interview on the program ‘Cafè d’Idees’ on Ràdio 4 and La 2. He insisted that the stability of president Pere Aragonès It is conditioned by whether or not it obtains the support to approve a new economic path. For now, he has considered that his situation is “quite dramatic” for a “solitude” that he assures is sought despite all the outstretched hands offered by the opposition.
He gave as an example the drought managementbut also an agreement of clarity that only the Commons or the approval of a decree on low emissions that has not previously been agreed upon. For what it may be, Illa has already made it clear that he will be the candidate for the Generalitat and the party has called a congress in march to rebuild a roadmap that aims to achieve governability.
Bartering with votes in Congress
The spokesperson has also dropped that what the Government expects is that the PSC have no choice that supporting the accounts of the Generalitat to guarantee the votes of ERC to approve those of Sánchez, is wrong. “We are not conditioned because of what they tell us in Madrid. If you want to agree on those of 2024, you first have to comply with those of 2023,” he said. And that happens through the three macro-projects that are part of the cornerstone on which the agreement woven between socialists and republicans was based: the agreement of the North Round, the technical commission on the airport of Barcelona and the Hard Rock complex.
Regarding the first two, the Government spokesperson, Patrícia Plaja, said this Tuesday that they were stranded because of the Government. Romero has responded that “is not true”although he has admitted that the document on the B-40 is currently on the table of the Ministry of Transport and will take the final push when the replacement of Raquel Sánchez by Oscar Puente. The forecast, he pointed out, is that the agreement for this infrastructure between Sabadell and Terrassa be signed before the end of the year.
Regarding the commission on El Prat, the leader has summoned the Catalan executive to appoint its members, despite recognizing that the Government has not yet done the same. And as far as Hard Rock is concerned, for the PSC there is no discussion about whether or not this project will be carried out. If the technical reports that the Government plans to have soon contain unfavorable elementshe pointed out, what needs to be done is “correct them” to also promote the complex. “Why does this project generate more problems than others? The Generalitat can force it to be as sustainable as possible,” he said, citing the theme park. Port Aventura.
Less weight in the Government
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Romero has claimed the “centrality” which the PSC currently occupies despite the “cordon sanitaire” that the independentists signed four years ago. A relevance that underpins the electoral results and that, he stressed, guarantees its “influence” within the PSOE despite the fact that for now they have lost weight in positions in the new Government, where they have a minister -Jordi Hereu- and not two, and they no longer hold either the presidency of Congress or the spokesperson in the Senate. The spokesperson has tried to remove iron from this matter ensuring that the match is “very focused on Catalonia” and that, in any case, Sánchez does not take any step that affects the Catalans that he does not have the approval from Illaeven though Junts vetoes him as an interlocutor.
What he has recognized is that it must be done more “pedagogy” about what it will mean amnesty lawin addition to being convinced that, as happened with the pardons, “time will prove them right”. The line that the socialists will not cross, he has emphasized, is that of the referendum. Nor will they defend that the Generalitat can collect all taxes, as Aragonès intends to promote. Opening the financing melon is considered crucial for the PSC, although without “maximalist” starting points. What the Statute includes, they remember, is a mixed tax consortium, a model they will bet on.